Few
Few (fū) , adjective
[Old English fewe, feawe, Anglo-Saxon feá, pl. feáwe; akin to Old Saxon fāh, Old High German fō fao, Icelandic fār, Swedish få, pl., Danish faa, pl., Gothic faus, Latin paucus, compare Greek pay^ros. Compare Paucity.]
Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituting a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
Are not my days few?
Few know and fewer care.
Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.